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TIL that in 2010, Sweden removed the statute of limitations for prosecuting murder because the 1986 assassination of their prime minister, Olof Palme, had still not been solved. Though 10,000 people have been questioned, the killer remains unknown to this day.

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gMdaA TIL that Volvo opened up the patent for three-point seatbelt cause "it had more value as a free life saving tool than something to profit from"
R7VE4 Today I learned that Ed Kemper spent 5,000+ hours over the course of a decade narrating several hundred books on tape for the blind, producing over 4 million feet of tape, as part of a program run in the California Medical Facility State Prison.
l76br TIL that when the Czech Republic surgically castrated 94 sex offenders, none of them comitted further sex crimes.
BgwZy TIL The quintessential renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci, never had the standard scholary education of his time. He only taught himself some latin, had no formal maths education until he was 40+ and didn't study the classics, thus traditional scholars scoffed at his observational scientific method
Bvbr TIL in 1908, Lieutenant Thomas O. Selfridge did a test flight with Orville Wright in one of his planes to see if the US Army would be interested in buying the plane and its design. Orville crashed the plane and the lieutenant died. The US Army purchased the plane anyway.